Auguste de la Motte

Auguste de la Motte was a Major-General of Hanover and Great Britain who fought in the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Auguste de la Motte was a veteran of the Seven Years' War, serving the personal union of Hanover and Great Britain against the Kingdom of France. Auguste was later sent to Gibraltar on 16 October 1775, and he commanded three battalions of Hanoverian troops during the defense of the city from 1779 to 1782. Under the command of General George Augustus Eliott, De la Motte's Hanoverian and Corsican troops repulsed French and Spanish assaults on the city, and by 1782, the siege ended as the Allies withdrew, leaving Britain in control of Gibraltar.